NIGP 91507: Audio Recording

NIGP 91507 Audio Recording, an Item code, encompasses professional recording, live streaming, broadcasting, and audio production services that state and local governments procure for public meetings, events, theatrical productions, and instructional settings. Recent solicitations show state agencies, school districts, municipalities, and public universities soliciting comprehensive audio-visual production services—including recording, mixing, live webcast delivery, closed captioning, and equipment setup—alongside standalone audio recording and archival systems. The Texas Education Agency is soliciting professional audio-visual services for hybrid Council and Committee meetings supporting quarterly sessions in Houston, Austin, and San Antonio with recording and Zoom Webinar integration (RFP 701-27-001, due October 21, 2026). Clayton County Public Schools is requesting bids on musical equipment and sound systems including classroom sound equipment and portable sound systems for approximately 48 schools (IFB 002-27, due November 5, 2026). Texas A&M International University is soliciting event production, audio, visual, lighting and staging services with an initial five-year term and optional renewals for Commencement exercises and university events (RFP 2027-001, response date September 30, 2026). Austin Independent School District operates a standing-vendor RFP for fine arts instruction and specialized production services available to all district campuses (RFP 27RFP021, due August 4, 2026). These solicitations reveal state education agencies, K-12 school districts, higher education institutions, city and county governments, and special-purpose districts as the primary issuing bodies.

Geographic activity clusters in Texas and Georgia, with additional recent opportunities in Florida, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The Texas Education Agency, Texas A&M International University, Lamar State College Orange, the City of Arlington, and the Railroad Commission of Texas account for multiple Texas opportunities. Georgia buyers include Clayton County Public Schools, the City of St. Marys, Atlanta Regional Commission, and Clayton County (Frank Bailey Senior Center renovation, RFQ, due July 30, 2026). Florida's Pinellas County School District solicited theater lighting renovations including audio-visual systems at Palm Harbor University High School (ITB 26-CD-020, bids due May 15, 2026, contract valued at approximately $501,000 excluding contingency). The City of Arlington, Texas requested proposals for LED video walls for Council Chambers and Council Briefing Room (RFP 260265, due August 20, 2026). The Railroad Commission of Texas is requesting proposals for live audio-visual broadcasting services for approximately 20 annual Commission meetings and hearings (IFB 455-26-1030, due July 15, 2026). Sourcewell, operating under Washington state cooperative purchasing law on behalf of multiple county and jurisdictional participants, issued RFP 061626 for law enforcement equipment (due June 16, 2026), which indirectly signals audio recording and communications equipment integration across participating public entities nationwide.